Get key by value in dictionary

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I wrote a function which looks up ages in a Dictionary and show the matching name:

dictionary = {'george' : 16, 'amber' : 19}
search_age = raw_input("Provide age")
for age in dictionary.values():
    if age == search_age:
        name = dictionary[age]
        print name

I know how to compare and find the age but how do I show the name of the person. Also, I am getting a KeyError because of line 5. I know it's not correct but I can't figure out how to make it search backward.

How do I fix this problem?

Jul 1, 2019 in Python by ana1504.k
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2 answers to this question.

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The problem here is you cannot use Dict in the above-mentioned way. You can try this:

for name, age in dictionary.items():    # for name, age in dictionary.iteritems():  (for Python 2.x)
    if age == search_age:
        print(name)
answered Jul 1, 2019 by SDeb
• 13,300 points
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I have slightly modified your program to get the output as per age. Here is the code

dictionary = {'george' : 16, 'amber' : 19}
search_age = int(input("Provide age"))

for key, value in dictionary.items():
    if value == search_age:
        print(key, '::', value)
answered Nov 25, 2021 by Python Coder

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